protégé ray fergerson who are we? what have we done? what are our plans? why are we here? what are...
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ProtégéRay Fergerson
• Who are we?
• What have we done?
• What are our plans?
• Why are we here?
• What are our problems?
• Demo (?)
Who are we?
• Stanford Medical Informatics – part of the Stanford University School of Medicine
• Research project led by Mark Musen
• Comprise about a half-dozen full-time staff (2 programmers + researchers) + students
• Funded primarily by US Government grants and contracts (NCI, NLM)
• http://protege.stanford.edu
What have we done? (1)
• Built an free, open-source, extensible Java tool for developing and maintaining frame-based (OKBC) ontologies and knowledge-bases.
• Not built-in support for rules, inference, classification, etc.
• Acquired 6000 registered users, 1000 active users.
What have we* done? (2)
• A number our users have developed plug-ins including interfaces to rule-based systems, classification engines, etc (JESS, Prolog, FACT)
• Developed plug-ins for visualization, ontology management (merging, etc) and PSMs
• Built plug-ins to interface to XML Schema and RDFS
• Worked with SRI to develop a DAML+OIL plug-in (in alpha)
*and our users
What are our plans?
• We are (will be) funded by NCI to develop an OWL backend for Protégé.
• We have hired a postdoc who will be devoted to this effort.
• Our near-to-intermediate term goal is to provide good support for OWL-Lite, with eventual support for full OWL.
Why are we here?
• Create new disasters. (Find out how we can best work with the core OWL community to develop the best editing environment for OWL that we can.)
• Understand more about some of the technical problems in the spec
• Understand the plans/timeline for the spec• Better understand the OWL species• Encourage development of reference parser
What are our problems?
• “differentFrom”
• Need OWL full for:– Allowed-values– Metaclasses– Allowed-parents– Cardinality
Demo (?)